# The Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth

- **Brand:** SPBH Editions
- **Price:** $17.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
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## Summary

The Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth by Olivier Richon, a provocative paperback essay exploring the relationship between looking and appetite, featuring a minimalist white cover with a central photograph.

## Description

The Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth is a provocative essay by Swiss photographer and academic Olivier Richon which rethinks the act of looking through the language of appetite, taste, and consumption. Drawn from a series of influential lectures delivered during his twenty-five-year tenure as Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art (1997–2022) – a period during which the course shaped an entire generation of photographers – the book presents a meditation on the camera as both eye and mouth: an apparatus that ingests the world in order to produce images. Framed through a psychoanalytic lens, Richon proposes that photography is less a neutral act of observation than a form of visual incorporation. If looking maintains distance, the mouth abolishes it. The camera becomes a devouring organ, where the object is dissolved, digested, and made into an image. The desire to see becomes entangled with the desire to consume. Through this reading, photography is revealed as an insatiable medium – one that satisfies and frustrates our appetite for representation in equal measure. The Devouring Eye invites us to reconsider how we relate to images, and how deeply they live in us.

## Variants

- **In stock:** 1 of 1

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Photography Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-917651-26-4
- **tags:** Olivier Richon, transfer
- **pages:** 192 pages
- **author:** Olivier Richon
- **format:** Paperback
- **vendor:** SPBH Editions
- **binding:** Paperback
- **publisher:** SPBH Editions
- **dimensions:** 10 x 14.8 cm
- **page count:** 192 pages
- **product type:** Photography Books
- **listed prices:** €15 £13 US$17 AU$30
- **shopify handle:** the-devouring-eye-photography-and-the-mouth-olivier-richon
- **publication date:** October 2025
- **dimensions and pages:** 10 x 14.8 cm, 192 pages

## Enrichment

- **Type:** photography book
- **Type Synonyms:** art book, essay book, non-fiction book
- **Tags:** paperback, text-heavy cover, minimalist cover design, photographic illustration
- **Styles:** minimalist, academic
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Book cover type:** Paperback
- **Genre:** Arts, Design, Philosophy
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** SPBH Editions

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